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Mankhurd, 2 July 2011

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Partners/Parties to Agreement

Software Code

For CAMP and Gnowledge Lab and SPARC, all speech should be free, so all code we produce should be free/open source so that others can run, study, modify, and republish it. Practically this enables wider collaboration and sustainable development, better bug tracking and reporting and adding features. Generally, as an application for the public, the code should be public. See the Free Software Definition, and the GNU Public License v3 GPL3.

Project Data

Regarding data, CAMP and Gnowledge and MESN are ready to enter a non-disclosure agreement for any data shared between the partners. This is inclusive of the location and landmark database originally collected by MESN, as well as data received by Gnowledge/CAMP from BEST.

  • MESN is ready to upload the location data into OpenStreetMap to be made public.
  • BEST database has been given to us under non-commercial license and for public benefit.

Resources

Commercially, the funds available to the project towards will go directly to tangible hours of participants and resources, rather than intangible or notional value of the code or data. This applies to time spent by participants in workshops and dedicated hours of developers/designers. The following items can be expensed:

  • Writing code
  • Collecting data
  • Database development
  • Computing infrastructure
  • Hardware prototyping
  • Venues for meetings/workshops
MESN can be the receiving bank account for funds collection, it is a registered charitable trust and Section 80G tax exemption is under process. MESN will also maintain project-specific accounting for the project.

Workshops

Regular monthly workshops at Gnowledge Lab and CAMP to advance goals of the project in a collective manner with developers and other working participants compensated for a full day’s time spent in accomplishing concrete tasks in the project.

These workshops are task-based and designed to meet project goals and milestones, such as Database Integration, OpenStreetMap Integration, Web Frontend, SMS Queries and Response, etc. The paid participants will form the core of the development team for the entire project. It is proposed to compensate each person Rs 1000 for a day in the workshop, and have a team of 3-4 hackers for each workshop.

We will also hold more informal, “parties”, hackerspaces, meetups or discussions with interested non-technical groups including users, funders/supporters, and enthusiasts and akin groups such as Linux User Groups (LUGs), and through OpenStreetMap workshops for students as Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture (KRVIA), and within Homi Bhabha Centre (HBCSE) and TIFR.

Budget

  • For participants/hackers in monthly workshops on a daily stipend
  • For Sanjay Bhangar of CAMP as lead developer
  • For a designer for brand, logo, marketing and identity
  • For Sandesh and further targeted data collection
  • For workshop leaders to mobilise students and volunteers (“crowdsourcing”)
  • For hardware prototypes and development by SPARC Systems Pvt Ltd

Phases of Development

We should base a one-year workplan on the following broad areas of work, each phase depending on completion of the prior phase:

  • 1. SMS Service
  • 2. Database Integration
  • 3. Web Application
  • 4. Android Application
  • 5. OpenStreetMap Integration with SMS, Web, Android

Pitch to Funders and Supporters

First pitch can be made only after the SMS service is working perfectly. We need a common name and brand/logo/identity for MESN, CAMP, Gnowledge partnership. See Going_Public for more details on strategy.

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